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Great video & beautiful shots using Kodak Retina Ia i’m big fan of them, amazing quality & design indeed! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you very much for checking out the video. Yes, real "they don't make 'em like they used to" example!
Nice video! Thanks a lot. Got this lens with the OM-1 I just bought. The entire set, including this lens, is almost brand new. Really eager to test it, both on the OM-1 and on my digital Sony's.
I am keen to get an OM at some point, and that sounds like a great set you have. I think you will enjoy the Tokina, it really is a neat little lens.
@danienelphoto I did get very lucky. A cool large vintage camera case, with inside it: an OM-1 body with f1.8 50mm kit lens and an original Olympus leather casing, the Tokina lens from your video, a flasher, a 90s point-and-shoot camera and two film rolls. Booklets for everything included, everything in minty mint condition. It all feels semi-unused. Price: 75 euro. Not bad at all. Hope you'll have a similar score with your future OM!
That is a good haul for 75E!
I just picked one of these up at an antique mall for $25. Very smooth. It’s on my film camera, so I will need to finish the roll before I know how it shoots.
That is a good price. I used mine again yesterday to test a Canon AL-1
@@danienelphoto - Brilliant! Will you be posting the results here or another platform by any chance?
Oh, very much! I just finished the roll - Kentmere Pan 400 - and I used that lens to shoot some still life shots in studio - also using its macro feature...
Great job soos altyd Danie en dit raak net beter! Net jammer van die swaar Canon flavour…jy moet darem bietjie Pentax inbring jong🤪🤪
Baie dankie, Anton! Haha... jy is reg. Ek kort so paar Takumars! Ek ogie op 35mm, 24mm... daar is wel n PK mount Novoflex video oppad!
@@danienelphotoek sien uit om DAAI te sien!👍🏻
Ek ook... kos n bietjie werk om hom te doen!
A few street blocks ahead of Kodak’s No 1 Autographic…1/25 and 1/50…well, kind of🤪
Totally. The Autographic is a neat kit. If there wasn't so many lenses I wanted instead...
Great video and I noticed the different music styles you played in the background to compliment the visuals.
Glad you like them!
Thanks for the great review. I like this lens too. I use it more often than the amazing 85mm 1.2L, as it is much lighter and the performance is solid. Also, it gives me a little more of that vintage look, especially wide open, while the 85mm 1.2 delivers quite a perfect, modern look.
...and manually focsing at f1.2 is tricky on the run sometimes!
@@danienelphoto absolutely!
Had an intersting chat to the camera repair guy here... the problem with super fast lenses is that in order to get it tack sharp, the lens develops chromatic aberrations, and to get rid of that, you sacrifice sharpness wide open.
@@danienelphoto yes, that’s interesting. I noticed that just a very minimal focusing change can change the appearance of longitudinal chromatic aberrations a lot. You might be right about sacrificing a bit of sharpness when needed. I will try to play with this aspect again.
It is hard to decide which I prefer to keep, sharpness or LCA!
Ek het seker 30 vintage lense wat ek gebruik vir my Sony. Ek weier om duisende uit te haal vir n moderne lens. My opinie is dat die ouer lense meer karakter het en verby die " o jou kwaliteit van foto moet flymskerp wees". En watter beter plek as die goeie ou Stellenbosch om te wys wat hulle kan doen. So jou cheap vintage glass is puik. Dankie vir die "upload". Cheers uit Oregon.
Baie dankie. Ja, my versameling groei ook elke dag voel dit my! Karakter is die regte woord, ek stem. Baie dankie dat jy ingeloer het, en als wat mooi is daar in Oregon (dis mooi wêreld daai hoor ek).
Thank you so, much for this video. I really enjoyed it and long forward to using my own camera I just found. I also enjoyed your photos, thank you for sharing them with us. God Bless
Thank you for taking time to watch it! Enjoy the camera. God Bless you too.
When you used Kodak 200 were you able to find 45 mm film? All I can find is 35.
It is 35mm film this camera uses. The 45mm is the lens's focal length. 45mm film is not a format I am aware off :) Kodak Gold is available in 135 (aka 35mm) and 120 format (for medium format cameras)
Cosina made cameras for everyone including Nikon EM
I did not know about the Nikon EM. White label manufacturing is the way most manufacturers stay afloat, in lots of industries.
Nice one bru 🇿🇦
Shot, bru!
I have a Voigtlander Bessa from the 30s (I believe) that is very capable of producing good images. Not as tack sharp as my Rolleiflex, but very pleasing. EDIT: but I should also mention it's very easy to make mistakes on these cameras :)
I do believe it is quite reasonable to expect good images, if your camera is in good condition. If the bellows are good and the lens clear, then one must just take care that the front "standard" is parralell to the film plane, and it should be ok. Also, the iris and shutter can give issues.
I recently had a similar outing with a Kodak Autograph. With my recent vintage Pentax 35mm drive I stepped away from MF for a while… I found the Autograph great fun to play with and I really should burn another roll or two before writing her off…bellows light leaks were a real issue… You make me wanna go scratch for a 400 ISO roll of 120…👍🏻
Light leaks in folders are unfortunately a big issue, especially if the are almost a century old. I think you should get that 120 into the Autograph and de-Pentaxify a bit!
@@danienelphotoDe-Pentaxify? 😂 Dude…Gaan was jou mond uit!!🤪😂😂 But yes, f/stops with the Autograph amounted to great amounts of thumb-sucking and 3 or so highly unreliable shutter speeds made life interesting.
Yes, considering the margins allowed for error and what tech they had to their disposal, it is still impressive, and films of that era were not all that forgiving.
I'm also using this lens on the EOS R50, I love the old FD lenses. Great video, thanks bro :)
Thank you, Zax! I love them too. I spent some time with my family today in a park, and also had another FD on my R6. (85mm 1.8). But, yes, this lens I discuss here is great. Thank you for checking out my video.
This is a great lens. I would never have tried it if it had not come bundled with a 58 f1.4 that I wanted. I think the image quality from the 50 f2 is better than that of the much-touted 58.
I haven't used the 58, but as you could tell, I also really like the lens! Thanks for checking out the video.
I found this camera at a garage sale it’s my first film camera!! when I press the shutter button is does no fire do you have any advice i’ve been trying to search it up but I can’t find anything
Congrats! If you have wound on the film lever, then the shutter is cocked. You have to then pull the lever back about 30 deg, the lightmeter will switch on and the shutter should work, if the camera is in working condition.
"Coma and halo (spherical aberrations)" are thing related to optical design (curvature, type of glass used, etc.). The multicoat only influences the overall contrast (backlit scenes), colors, certain reflections and the level of light transmission
Thank you :)
Any idea if the lens has a SC?
You can't take a bad image with the K1000. Oh sure you can have poor composure, stuff-up the metering, neglect to clean the lens or forget to set the ASA / ISO. Fabulous cameras.
Indeed! It is truly never this camera's fault :)
I just got this camera during my trip in Japan!!!!
Enjoy - it is a really fun camera.
Bought 2 for £8.50 in near mint condition. For video work with my sigma FP, it's a steal.
Wow, that is a bargain. I checked Facebook Marketplace today, and saw a bunch of them for really very little money. Real value, indeed.
i picked one up from a thrift shop years ago and i never knew if it worked, granted i still dont, but i recently took it out of storage, cleaned it, and im hoping it works! fingers crossed! thank ypu for the upload!
Let me know if it does! I have another, more complete video on the camera, and what bbatteries you should get etc is discussed. Thanks for watching.
Change your caption, don't write cheap because it cheap these days then it was too much pricy dream of every middle class families I have vintage camera collection like zenith, pentax, practica, yashica all my father's collection so i better know the values.
Cheap Vintage Glass is the series's name, and it refers to the price relative to new modern lenses. It was indeed expensive then, but as I live in the present, I refer to its price now, but no disrespect to the quality or value of these. I couldn't afford it in the 90s either, so I get your point :).
Bro does camera control work
Yes
Hello I have rebel t5 is takes ef lens.What adapter would I need to use to use this lens with it? I am new to cameras and this is my first camera. I know it is old but I like it. Thank you for your help.
Hi Shawn! You get a FD-EF adapter for it. Some might list it as FD-EOS EF. There might be a link to one in the description. K&f Concepts makes a very good one and they can generally be had for about $50 or so (I am doing a quick currency conversion from my own currency!). Vitrox also makes good versions, quite cheap. PS - the T5 is a great body to use vintage lenses with. If you get some M42 mount lenses (screw mount), the M42-EF converter combo works amazing and is really small, so has very little influence on camera ergonomics. Cheap Takumar (any lenses in that range is great) or Pentacon lenses (50mm is great) , or some of the old Russian lenses (Helios or Jupiter - the 58mms are great) , are great for that body.
@@danienelphoto thank you so much!
Pleasure. Thanks for checking out my video :)
Thanks for the review! Yes, the MD 50mm f/2 is a really nice lens. Only problem(s) for me are that it has a rather long minimum focus distance and only a six-bladed aperture. But for us $35, I can't really complain. I think that it handles chromatic aberration better than my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM (the third version of the Canon Nifty Fifty) at similar apertures. But the Canon lens hadnles flare a bit better.
Yes, indeed. The longer focusing distance is a bit 'meh', especially compared to a Pentacon 50mm 1.8. The nifty fifties from Canon seem to suffer from inconsistent manufacturing. I have used ones that are lovely, and then the same lens, just another copy not good. Because I often use cheap vintage lenses, and they mostly have six blade apertures, I have started taking to it as a "feature" :)
I have a C330 that I got from Japan during covid-times via eBay. I got the body and also from separate Japanese sellers, the 55mm and the 135mm lenses. The camera was described as "near mint" ... and it's reasonably clean ... but there is some "minor" chrome degradation/corrosion on the crank-side of the camera that did not appear in the eBay photos ! I told the seller about this in an un-heavy-handed way, and he replied politely but did not offer me any cash-back ... LOL ... anyway keep that in mind when buying on eBay (even from Japan) and going by the descriptions. Shipping back (return was possible) would have been too expensive from Canada to make that worthwhile. Offering me an eTransfer of part of the purchase price would have made more sense ... but I did not push for that. Oh, and I did not give a bad (as far as I can recall) eBay rating. I think I probably never did get around to giving him a rating.
Man, it can be a gamble! My big concern is functionality with old cameras. I can handle a bit (even a lot!) of cosmetic wear, but if it is not working, I don't want it. It sucks when sellers "misrepresent" their wares, though. I buy local mostly, so it helps in that regard.
my 35-105 f3.5 has about 3mm free travel in the zoom ring...they told me it's normal. Is that so?
Mine doesn't, so can't say I know much about that either...
Very good video. I still use Pentax vintage lenses with my digital Pentax cameras. No adapter needed! 🙂 They are a joy to use. I like the smooth easy focus rings. The green button on Pentax digital cameras takes care of metering when properly setup.
That is the beauty of the K digital cameras, right? Other manufacturers like updating mounts (and sell more lenses that way, no doubt!). Thank you for checking out my video, much appreciated.
@@danienelphoto Yes in deed, the K mount is great. It gets updated when new technology is introduced to lenses so sometimes new lenses with new features won't fully work, but can still be used with some limitations.
...and thr limitations in my experience are normally not great.
Wow man, your production quality is getting better for each episode. Not to mention the content! This was a great watch. Also very cool with the Google Maps thing so we could see where you were, makes it easier to imagine what your part of the world looks like and I love that! I have a very similar lens (perhaps even the same one?) but for a different lens mount. I haven't discovered if mine has the same swirly bokeh effect though, but absolutely gotta check it out now! Very informative video as well. You clearly know what you're doing. The shot at around 12:42 was probably my favourite. Great stuff as always, man! Looking forward to the next one :) Cheers from a much colder Sweden, haha!
Thanks so much, as always! Inwas afraid the Google Maps thing might be weird, then I thought "who cares", so I am glad you liked it! That shot that you like - I do too, but I almost feel like it is still too wide.... maybe should take a 35mm lens and redo it, one day.
nice review, thank you
Thank you, Armin, I appreciate you checking out the video.
Hello i 've one and it's my choice when i travel with my CANON A1. very nice video , thanks for your work! Chris from France ^^
Mercí, Chris! Yes, I keep it on my AE-1 now. Shot much of my upcoming Kentmere Pan 400 video with it. Thank you for checking in.
Hi Danie i have enjoyed your medium format videos. I had my first experience in medium am large format in 1982 and then did a course in 1987 through the police and have always loved it especially in black and white when i also used to develop and print everything myself. I have just acquired a Mamiya C330 and am keen to get back to my roots in photography. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much, Sam, I really appreciate that. The C330 is pretty awesome - the "upgrade" to my own C33. Feel free to check back and share some of your C330 images!
Danie i will do that. At the moment i have old expired film in it but i hope to get some new stock soon and if there is anything half decent i will share.
Great stuff. Expired BW stays good for a long time.
I have this, can it be used normally without battery?
Hi - not "normally" . The shutter will revert to 1/30th of a second, you will have to meter externally and set the aperture. I posted another video about using it without a battery (and with flash) kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGyuj8yIhNW-fcY.html
@@danienelphoto Does that mean I can use it normally when it's sunny?
@@ghu.35mm Hmmm, sunny conditions will give you a reading of F22 at 1/60th, but you could get away with F22 at 1/30th. So you will need to set the aperutre to F22 if you are using 100 ISO film. You will not be able to use higher ISO films comfortably. The lightmeter doesn't work without the battery, but for the average sunny day you will get results. A sunny day with clouds, go F11, if it is later in the day, towards late afternoon you can move the aperture to F8 and open up as the day gets darker :)
I recently stumbled upon this channel. Briefly finished a few. And I gotta say I really love how unique and different the content here is compared to KZread as a whole. In a sea of similar content it’s nice to see a breath of fresh air. This channel is so underrated tbh, and it’s only a matter of time before this grows and evolves even more. Anyways! I really enjoy what you’re doing. Easiest sub I ever made. Please hmu 🤙 if you ever want to do a collab or something fun! 🎉
Thank you very much for your kind words. It is really appreciated. You seem to be a unique creator yourself! Love the energy :)
My wife bought me a PK mount one as an engagement present 40 years ago,that went many years ago but I now have one in OM mount and it's a decent lens
Cool. Mine is the OM too. As far as cheap wide angles go, this is defintely one of the better ones I have used.
I also have that lens in M42 mount. Use it only for shooting B&W film. Really nothing to complain about with this lens.
Indeed a dependable lens!
Nice work Daniel I’ve never once tried delta. Back in the day I used HP5 FP4 Tmax and the occasional roll of tri X if the chief photographer had a spare roll for me. These days I’ll shoot whatever is cheapest haha at the moment fomapan isn’t bad but Rollei RPX 100 and 400 is the cheapest and it’s pretty good 📷 I reckon your shots would be awesome in early/late South African light
Thank you, Paul. Yes, trying out Kentmere 400 now that over here is same price as Fomapan. Delta is a bit rich for everyday work, for sure! Love HP5 and FP4. Have some Tri-X here too.
@@danienelphoto Never tried Kentmere, the prices are good here around the same as Rolei, i'll give it a look. cheers
I will need to try Fomapan... My Kentmere roll is finished, just need to process and finish video.
@@danienelphoto awesome mate i'll keep eye out for it, i'm doing same 6 frames left to shoot with my old beast Minolta 9 then chuck the vid together after that I'm back to the wee canon rangefinder, love these old cameras.
Your video output is great! I am just about making every 2nd Monday. Chat soon.
Hi. Is it sharp for photography?
Hi - you can see in the samples in the video that it resolves well and is sharp, but it won't be quite as sharp as a modern 500mm. I would use it mostly for photography, as it is a challenging focal length to handle for video.
@@danienelphotothank you
Thank you for checking out the video!
Great video , great pictures - I hope I can see more! I also love my C33. 😊
Thank you and thank you for watching. My latest video is also with the C33 and some Delta 400. Check it out.
why did i read somewhere these were actually made in japan not in dresden like the Praktica it came on was.. could be wrong. its almost more interesting to think these are german lenses.
Yup, unless one has first hand experience our onformation are only as good ad the sources (internet!), but the overhelming amount of information suggest Dresden.
@@danienelphoto very good! cheers
Tx - interesting factoid - Hanimex had some of their lenses made by Practika in Dresden and Japanese manufacturers lkke SUN. So did many other more budget lens brands. So, in a way, there is a Dresden-Japan connection.
@@danienelphoto oh wow, that is a fun tidbit. with someone who has a lot of Praktica cameras but also loves Japanese glass, i love this bit of 70s cross pollination during this complex cold war period.
Much like space exploration, they were like - ok, you lot do politics, we do our thing.
This one I really liked. Well done man! I shot Delta 400 a while back, and I was a little disappointed about the lack of contrast as they kinda looked a little washed out. Now that I see yours it's pretty clear to me that it was most likely due to user error 😂 But regardless, perhaps it's worth pushing a stop or two? My favorite photo in this video was definitely the porch chairs at 4:17 - nice and clean shot. Also great to see your subscriber count is on a steady rise! Cheers
Thank you so much. Yes, in South Africa, contrast is not a problem, because of the bright sunlight here, but I think pushing it a bit will definitely give you some extra oomph! Tx, I also like that chair shot, and normally it is not my type of thing at all!
I have no idea why in Souf Efrika, you would use film! It's so expensive. I went digital in 2005! Dis mos lekker en goedkoop.Alles van die beste!
Hi Jason, net so! I also went digital in 2005, I worked as a pro film shooter, so saw the promise of digital immediately, but shooting thousands of images per month for 2 decades now, on awesome digital cameras as a professional shooter, to please other people, and on strict deadlines and turnarounds, I enjoy the pace, uncertainty and nostalgia of film on my off-days! When money is tight, I just plonk a vintage lens on my digital camera and have fun that way. We are actually fortunate in South Africa. We don't pay much for processing and scanning (I have my colour film dev'd), we don't pay more for film, and we pay much less for vintage gear than guys in Europe and the States. ... but ultimately these are just mediums. Whatever floats one's boat! (Also, we spend much less than guys with mountain bikes or golfers for green fees!)
@@danienelphoto Mother Goose, another “I went digital in 2005” here…🤪 350D in April 2005… But seriously, according to my memory film is cheaper now than it was then…? Digital is a convenient evil that will sadly never go away…unless we can use it as a gateway drug to get more people to shoot film?😂👍🏻
No, I can't say that film is cheaper... I used to charge R125 per roll (35mm or 120 Kodak E100S E6) for film and processing to magazine clients. A 5 pack of E100S at Orms was around R220... Portra 160 was around the same. 5 pack of Portra is now almost R1800-ish.... Processing wasn't that much cheaper, though. Digital has its moments, for sure... and it is a gateway drug to film!
@@danienelphoto OK fair but on film price I quote common dog memories…Agfa Vista / HDC…😝 First time I shot slide was around 2012 or so and I never burned big volumes…
Hehe, back then my monthly film and processing bills ran R4k to R5k :)
AG NO MAN DANIE… Here I am trying to limit the film variants I use… Great video by the way…as always…
Lol, thanks.... Kentmere 400 coming soonish...
Just bought a pristine example of this lens for my A-1. Looking forward to the results. Thanks for the video.
You will enjoy the lens. Mine is now pretty much permanently on my AE-1.
I found this camera in my grandpa's stuff. It is in great condition, but I unlocked the lens once and since I've put it back on I can't unscrew it anymore, and the aperture lens doesn't move anymore (it stays fully open). What should I do ?
Hi - good find! The lens fits to the camera body with "bayonet" mount, so it doesn't "unscrew" (that is obviously if it is exactly the same camera :) ). It fits in with a solid "click". So when you hold the camera pointing the lens away from you, there is a button on the left of thr lens against the camera body that you press and you turn the lens. If this doesn't work there might be a bit of an issue there and I can't say unless I see it :). In terms of the aperture ring - it has an "A" setting (Again, this is if it is a 50mm Rikonon F2). If it is set on that, the aperture ring don't move, unless you press the small little button on the side of the aperture ring and then turn it. I hope this helps! Feel free to drop me a DM on my Insta @danienelphoto with pics/video and I will.see if I can be of assistance.
@@danienelphoto Thank you for your answer ! Yes it really is this exact camera, but unfortunately I think it really is stuck, I've tried everything... I just don't want to risk breaking it so it's fine I'll just use it with the aperture open. I'm sure I will still be able to take nice pictures during my trip to Ireland in a few months. I even have a working Starblitz flash and I can't wait to try those out !
The aperture "closes down" once you shoot, but stays open for composing, in its normal opration. See if itcloses down as the shutter fires?
I’ve just started on my FD journey, shooting with a LUMIX S5 and I’m loving the FD lenses so far. I might just be looking out for the 35-105 to add to the collection 😂
It is a great addition as an all-rounder for when you are just not in the mood to carry 4 or 5 lenses with you.
Pentax has a practically identical lens in their Pentax-A line-up…not a Pentax-A fan but oh well…
I suppose at the lower end, like most things, there are lots of duplication of products between brands to stay competitive.